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 The way to fuck the system is to realize that the stuff you pay attention defines your world.
You're what you pay attention to, your world is what you care about, your humanity is who is around you. Minimalism can help as long as you don't underestimate the role of happiness in life: nothing is worth doing just for the sake of it. Fucking the system is not of any use per-se, I prefer to explore the world and then, eventually, understand that my happiness incidentally intersects the "fucking of the system". 
 What you're saying is you would prefer if kids were being starved and bombed and just so you can fuck the system perpetually. I'm certain you thought this was some profound philosophy you thought up here lmfao. 
 That’s not what I thought he was saying…